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Discoveries Deportation Westerbork Film • 20250224

Discoveries Deportation Westerbork Film • 20250224 • The boy, the man, and the woman selected in this edited still of the linked video clip (15 s) URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxBw3eso6Bi3vIaR25h_bDWRHSx5EfMylN

Utrecht family identification , almost complete…

Almost certainly, three Jewish people have been recognized in the unique Westerbork film from 1944 (1). This time it concerns the 9-year-old boy Israël Wijnschenk, his father Max Wijnschenk, and his grandmother Betje Kokernoot-van Furth, who all lived in Utrecht (Holland).

Last week, the Dutch public broadcaster NOS (2) reported the news from the Utrecht (Dutch) news site Nieuws030 (3) that it is very likely that three people were recognized again in this film made by the Jewish prisoner and filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer showing the deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti by train in Camp Westerbork on May 19, 1944.

Image researcher Koen Hulsbos — who previously identified an Amsterdam couple in this deportation train (4) — thought he recognized the young Israël Wijnschenk, a pupil at the time of the Joodse (Jewish) School Utrecht, and presented this to Victor Frederik, researcher of the Joodse School (5,6). The boy, the man, and the woman seem to belong together, and were recognized from family photos, also by family members.

It is certain that Max and his wife Chel (not in the images) returned to Utrecht after the war, their children Israël and his sister Kitty were murdered. Grandma Betje was also gassed in Auschwitz.

A portrait of Israël Wijnschenk is shown at the site of Joods Monument (7).

According to the transport list, there were two other children in that wagon, Joseph Beugeltas (11 years old) and Manfred Studzinsky (7 years old). Joseph Beugeltas appeared to have blond hair, and could not have been it (6). To be completely sure, the researchers are still looking for a photo of Manfred Studzinsky, for comparison…

Notes

1) Deportation Westerbork Film • Edition 2021 | 20210719 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | Footage filmed by Rudolf Breslauer in 1944, courtesy of NIOD | Sound and Vision . URL https://settela.com/2021/07/19/deportation-westerbork-film-20210719/

2) Utrechters ‘vrijwel zeker’ herkend op Westerborkfilm uit 1944. NOS Nieuws Feb 22, 2025. URL https://nos.nl/l/2556858

3) Nieuwe herkenningen in Westerborkfilm ‘bijna zeker’. Jim Terlingen | Nieuws030 . URL https://www.nieuws030.nl/hist030rie/drie-nieuwe-herkenningen-in-westerborkfilm-zo-goed-als-zeker/

4) Amsterdam couple found in Westerbork film • 20241223 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2024/12/23

5) Joodse school Utrecht. Website. URL https://joodseschoolutrecht.nl

6) Israël op Westerborkfilm? Victor Frederik- Web site Joodse school Utrecht. (Accessed 20250224). URL https://joodseschoolutrecht.nl/nl/Verhalen-over-leerlingen/Kitty-en-Israel-Wijnschenk/Israel-op-Westerborkfilm/

7) Portrait of Israël Wijnschenk. Site Joods Monument. URL https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/122045/israël-wijnschenk

Citation info : Discoveries Deportation Westerbork Film • 20250224 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2025/02/24/

Stompwijk Map 1870 • @1MEMO 20250217

Map of Stompwijk in Holland around around 1865-1870 with the 3 windmills draining water from the Driemans polder in Wilsveen (Map Section 5). Leendert van der Burg, my great-great grandfather, was watermiller at the time on the Middle Mill.

Notes

Map by Kuyper, J. of the former municipality of Stompwijk, around 1865-1870 (currently part of the municipality Leidschendam-Voorburg, South Holland, the Netherlands). Source Wikimedia Commons.

Citation info : Stompwijk Map 1870 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO 20250217

Killer Windmill • @1MEMO 20250216


The story of my great-great grandmother killed by the spinning sails of her windmill , the Middle Mill in Stompwijk, Holland.

My great-great grandmother, Petronella van Dorp, was killed June 9, 1881, by the Middle Mill of these Three Windmills of Stompwijk. A row of windmills built in 1672 to drain water out of the Driemans polder in Stompwijk, Holland.

She was feeding the chickens, when the wind turned the windmill sails that grabbed her skirts and killed her, on June 9, 1881.

She was a miller’s wife — a widow at the time — of Leendert (Leonardus) van der Burg, my great-great grandfather.
Her eldest son Albert (my great-grandfather), a water miller too, and a former Papal Zouave (see below), reported her death the next day at the village town hall in Stompwijk.

Albert must have lost his Dutch citizenship after he had taken up ‘military service with a foreign power’, as a 16 year old boy, joining the Papal Zouaves from February 5, 1868 until 1870.
That might have had consequences for work as a water miller. He married in 1883 and appears to have lived a few years in Vlaardingen (near Rotterdam) – where my grandfather Machiel was born – before returning to Stompwijk with his wife Johanna van der Togt.

Albert’s brother, Pieter van der Burg, married May 8, 1882 with Magdalena de Bruin — a year after the fatal accident of his mother — and was a water miller on this Middle Mill (Middelmolen) in the Driemans polder in Stompwijk until 1892.

Notes

Death Petronella van Dorp. Municipal archive The Hague in Den Haag (Netherlands), Civil registration deaths
Ambachten en gemeenten Leidschendam (1812-1817), Stompwijk en Veur, Stompwijk, archive 5270-01, inventory number 910, 10-06-1881, Overlijdensakten Stompwijk, record number 1881-29 . Permalink https://hdl.handle.net/21.12124/01783BA8766C46A0A57A16DB227ABC38

Open Archives URL https://www.openarchieven.nl/hga:01783BA8-766C-46A0-A57A-16DB227ABC38

Middenmolen (van de Driemanspolder). Molen Database Ten Bruggencate-nr. 00966 . URL https://www.molendatabase.nl/molens/ten-bruggencate-nr-00966?paging=true

Pieter van der Burg . Zoetermeer City Archive URL https://zoeken.geheugenvanzoetermeer.nl/detail.php?nav_id=1-6&id=14010664

Papal Zouave • 1-memo•com • 20220313 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2022/03/13/papal-zouave/

Great-great-great grandfather ‘Pieter’ van der Burg was a water-miller too, 200 years ago . https://michelvanderburg.com/2014/08/21/water-windmiller-pieter-van-der-burg/

Video recorded January-February 2022.

Citation info : Killer Windmill • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO 20250216 • TakeNode 03fa6ccb-3254-411c-9922-240eb28e7509

Stop St Nicolaas By Dutch Border Police 1948 | 20231118


NL – Grenspolitie controleert St Nicolaas op smokkelen, november 1948 (english below)
De Nederlandse grenspolitie aan de grens met België (in Zundert) controleert de binnenkomst van Sint Nicolaas en twee Zwarte Pieten die per paard vanuit Spanje via België naar Nederland reizen – niet de gebruikelijke stoomboot route. Bewerking film van Polygoon Hollands Nieuws week 47, 1948 | Open Beelden | Beeld & Geluid

EN – Border police checks St Nicolaas November 1948 on smuggling at entry in Holland
Border police in Zundert at the Netherlands frontier with Belgium checks entry of St Nicolaas (Saint Nicolas) and two Zwarte Pieten (Black Petes) travelling from Spain via Belgium to the Netherlands, by horse – not the usual steamboat route.
Edited film from Dutch cinema news Polygoon Hollands Nieuws week 47, 1948 | Open Images | Sound & Vision

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Marolles Found Family Photo | 20230313


Flea market at the Old Market square in the Marolles quarter of Brussels, March 2019
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Papal Zouave | 20220313

Papal Zouave | 20220313 | 1-memo•com | February 1868, Papal State, Rome – Albert van der Burg, Zouave. Photo taken in Rome (according to my father, photographer not known).
Albert (my great-grandfather) joined as a 16 year old boy the Papal Zouaves from February 5, 1868 until 1870.

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